Table 2.
Attitudes and beliefs of university students regarding emergency contraception
| Topic | By Sex |
By Age |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall (n=1585) | Female (n=1045) | Male (n=451) | P-Value | 17-22 (n=947) | 23-51 (n=532) | P-Value | |
| Do you approve of the use of EC if a woman was raped? | 0.02 | 0.07 | |||||
| Yes | 93.2 | 94.4 | 90.5 | 92.5 | 94.9 | ||
| No | 4.1 | 3.2 | 6.2 | 4.4 | 3.2 | ||
| Unsure | 2.7 | 2.4 | 3.3 | 3.1 | 1.9 | ||
| Do you approve of the use of EC if a couple used a condom, but it broke during sex? | 0.02 | 0.01 | |||||
| Yes | 85.8 | 87.9 | 81.6 | 84.9 | 88.7 | ||
| No | 9.3 | 7.2 | 13.5 | 9.1 | 8.3 | ||
| Unsure | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 6.0 | 3.0 | ||
| Do you approve of the use of EC if a couple did not use any protection during sex? | 0.32 | < 0.01 | |||||
| Yes | 68.3 | 70.0 | 64.7 | 66.0 | 73.6 | ||
| No | 20.2 | 17.9 | 24.7 | 21.5 | 16.4 | ||
| Unsure | 11.5 | 12.1 | 10.6 | 12.5 | 10.0 | ||